Thursday, October 12, 2017

Five Minute October: Write

Write.

I'm going to admit I've written this in advance. I've taken this week off from blogging to celebrate my anniversary, but I wanted to participate, so I'm writing ahead a little.

Writing is something I've always loved. I may have hated the research part of a paper, but writing it was something that I never really minded. Writing a blog seemed like a good outlet for me. Sometimes, I find it as hard as those research papers. Do I have a topic to focus on? Do I have something to say? I sometimes feel like I'm just writing for the sake of writing, without a purpose.

I want to make writing a focus again. Something I'm learning is that I don't have to work "in real time." I'm hoping to clear out a backlog of stories that need writing down. I have photos and stories I want to share, but just haven't gotten that far, or figured "They were so long ago, why bother?"

Celia's violin teacher holds a contest each spring - who can practice the most days in a row. To count as an "official" practice, it needs to be only five minutes, because the hardest part usually is just getting started. Five minutes a day hasn't seemed so hard - often I find myself writing for fifteen or twenty once I get started. I know that five minutes that turns into an hour isn't going to happen every day, but I think once this month is over, I'm going to set up a "just five minutes" for every other day and see what happens. Maybe I can clear out some of the backlog that's in my head!

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Hi! I'm Meg, a city girl from Philadelphia transplanted to a 19-acre farm in the Garden State of New Jersey. I started blogging to share about Jude's adventures homeschooling, and our adventures have grown to include his brothers and our friends. Welcome!

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